LA TIMES COUNTDOWN, ONLY 5 DAYS LEFT – WELCOME TO FORKS
A LA Times staff writer visited Forks:
Times staff writer Sue Carpenter made the trip to the tiny town and writes:Sydney Conway and two of her teenage friends, on a school holiday, got into a minivan and drove four hours — to stare at the nondescript brick building that is Forks High School. There’s a weathered wooden sign announcing it as “the home of the Spartans,” but otherwise it looks like most other high schools in the country. Sydney, Alexis Miller and Rebekah Hamilton got out of their van, stood in front of the school — oblivious to the cool mist that was frizzing their hair and chilling their pedicured, flip-flopped feet — and screamed, “Twilight!”
[...] Travel toward Forks’ one lighted intersection, and tourists can eat Twilight sandwiches at the sub shop or rent Bella’s Suite at the Dew Drop Inn. Many locals have played along with the themes in the Twilight books — and business has boomed. “It’s not that hard to put [Twilighters] over the edge,” said Julie Hjelmeset, the inn’s manager. She transformed the double-queen bedroom in this otherwise run-of-the-mill hotel by swapping the white linens and towels for racier black-and-red versions and resting imitation long-stemmed roses on the beds. Bella’s Suite fetches double the rate of a regular room — $149 per night versus $74.
LAME – yeah, sorry, but it is. We’ve been given so much Forks news over the past months, nothing about Forks is new.
I feel for the LA Times though, it must be hard coming up with interesting material for the countdown. Do you like today’s countdown offering?
They also announced the winner to last week’s caption contest. See our blog about that here
On to the winner. There were many amusing entries this week and, quite frankly, more fart jokes than I was prepared for. This simple one from Antonette was clever and made me laugh out loud. I don’t know how else to explain why, except to say I’d get annoyed, too. Turns out mind reading isn’t always a perk:Jasper, Alice, Emmett and Rose: (Thinking: EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD EDWARD…)
Edward: WHAT?!?
Jasper, Alice, Emmett and Rosalie: NOTHING!!!! (laughter)
LOL@the fart jokes. Bodily functions always make me laugh. I like the winner’s entry though. It sounds like something the Cullens would do to Edward funning around.
